# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S912
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Q14 ‘SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

ACTION

Concerning this Report of the Board for Higher Education, “3
Committee 1 brought in the following resolution, which was q
adopted, also disposing of Memorials 134, 140, 141, and Unprinted 3
Memorial 74: Resolution 2 :

Wuereas, God has visibly blessed our Church during the past
and has given abundant increase in numbers, permitting us to
double our membership within the last twenty-five years; and ;

Wuersas, All available studies indicate unmistakably that this
harvest of souls may be expected to continue throughout the next
generation; and

Wuereas, This constantly increasing membership will make
necessary additional pastors and teachers to serve our existin
8regations and to staff newly organized congregations; and
Wuereas, Also beyond our own horizon the. opportunities to

_ enter :through open doors are coming to us in unprecedented,
numbers; and ;

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Wnereas, The present capacity of our th

for the occupation of new fields; and

. Wuereas, The present capacity of our teacher-training colleges
also is entirely inadequate to meet the need of 375 teachers (men
and women) conservatively estimated to be necessary annually
by 1955 for replacement and for staffing new “schools; and

Wuereas, Synod’s Board for Higher Education, after very.
thorough and extensive study and investigation, proposes a re-,
organization program affecting some of our present institutions; and

Wuereas, This reorganization program is designed to meet -
at least in part the threatening crisis as quickly as possible and
at the: relatively low estimated expenditure of $270,000; and

Wuereas, A postponement of action which is demanded by

a realistic appraisal of the impending crisis would be bot
and dangerous; therefore be it

Resolved, That Synod approve the Reorganization Program
(Plan C) as submitted to us by our Board for Higher: Education
(pages 187 to 210) at the estimated cost of approximately $270,000;!

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and be it further ~

Resolved, That implementation of this actio
adopting the following enabling resolutions:

1. That Synod delegate to its Board for Higher Education
authority to execute the reorganization recommendations or any
Sections of them which are adopted by the convention; provided,

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